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Hayley Saul enjoys the challenge of starting over

Hayley Saul enjoys the challenge of starting over

Hayley Saul, a 27-year-old Amateur competitor from Des Arc, Arkansas admits it’s not easy starting over with a new show partner, especially in Trail and other all-around events, but it’s what she loves the most and what motivates her to show. “I love the reward of finishing a young horse,” she said. “Taking them to […]

Show community mourns loss of legendary Vital Signs Are Good

Show community mourns loss of legendary Vital Signs Are Good

Vital Signs Are Good, one of the most decorated horses in American Quarter Horse Association history, was humanely euthanized today due to complications surrounding a coffin joint infection. The 2000 red roan mare by Zippos Mr Good Bar and out of Vitalism was a superstar from the start. She won the Open 2-Year-Old Western Pleasure […]

Abi Tuiasosopo makes joyous return to the show arena

Abi Tuiasosopo makes joyous return to the show arena

These days, each time Abi Owings Tuiasosopo swings a leg over the back of a horse she closes her eyes and thanks the Lord for the opportunity to be in the saddle again. Because for a very long time that didn’t seem possible. Abi was seven years old when she discovered what made her feel […]

Bidding Closes Soon

Bidding for The 48th Mid Winter Sales will close on Wednesday, Jan. 18 and Thursday, Jan. 19. “These 2 auctions give buyers the opportunity to get there new broodmare, show horse, prospect or trail riding horse now and be ready for the spring,”  said Mike Jennings of the Professional Horse Services, LLC management team. “The Broodmare Affaire […]

The western pleasure arena will be different without A Certain Vino

The western pleasure arena will be different without A Certain Vino

When a legendary athlete retires, his team retires his jersey. When a multiple-time World Champion Western Pleasure horse retires, his team retires his shoes. A Certain Vino’s (Vino) four horseshoes were ceremoniously pulled during a retirement celebration held during the AQHA World Championship Show in Oklahoma City this past November. “There’s no doubt that Vino […]

AQHA auction raises over $10,000

The AQHA Professional Horsemen’s Council raised $10,900 for the AQHA Processional Horsemen’s Crisis Fundthrough an online auction that took place during the 2016 Lucas Oil AQHA World Championship Show. The highest selling item, a breeding to Allocate Your Assets, which was donated by Searles Ranch and Katherine K. Tobin, sold for $2,000.There were a total of […]

Randy Mitchell puts focus the on matching clients with horses

Randy Mitchell puts focus the on matching clients with horses

Keep your eye on Randy Mitchell as he’s coaching clients in the show pen and you can easily tell if they are having a good ride. If he adjusts his ball cap and it gets lower on his head…things are not going well. It’s an inside joke,” Mitchell said. “That’s what I love about my […]

Extremely Hot Chips’ record as a sire strong as his show record

Extremely Hot Chips’ record as a sire strong as his show record

To his owner, Russ Louderback, Extremely Hot Chips is bigger than life. So much so that when the Executive Vice President of White Lodging, a large hotel owner/developer from Northwest Indiana, was selected to grace the cover of Hotel Business Design recently, he opted for a photograph of himself aboard the 2006 chestnut Quarter Horse […]

Susan Juroe: Starting over with a new show partner

Susan Juroe: Starting over with a new show partner

Colorado businesswoman and top American Paint Horse Association Amateur competitor Susan Juroe knew from the start it was going to take a special horse to replace Too Sleepy For Candy, her show partner of three years. When she lost Mandy, her multiple APHA World Champion mare in the fall of 2014, Juroe was afraid she’d never […]

Pretty Assets returns to the Congress with Alexandra Chavez

Pretty Assets returns to the Congress with Alexandra Chavez

Graceful, pretty and sweet is how Alexandra Chavez describes her 2-year old Hunter Under Saddle mare.   Sired by Allocate Your Assets and out of a daughter of Art I Sweet, the bay mare with the wide blaze and four stockings, certainly personifies her name – Pretty Assets.   Amy Brosch, of Sorrento, Florida, raised […]